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FV

noun

FV is a noun meaning “Initialism of fishing vessel (also a ship prefix)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-V, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of FV is FVs.

What does FV mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of fishing vessel (also a ship prefix).

  2. 2

    Initialism of French valve.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of FV

  • FVs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is FV?

FV appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,767th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

FV in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense fishing vessel:

LanguageWords
FrenchB, P

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.